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MM 11314 :: seal

Object description: Scaraboid in the shape of a human head. The hair formed by parallel incised lines. Seemingly wearing a moustache, hence indicating this being a Patek. Threading hole running though the piece from neck to the top of the head. The verso has 2 incised, seated gods, the baboon of Thot wearing a sun disc, and the goddess Maat with a feather on her head and an ankh sign on her lap.

Data elements
References (1)

Inventory number

MM 11314

Serie nummer

8071

Previous ID

E1314, G-AI67, Gayer-Anderson Coll.

Object

seal

Object, Swedish

sigill

Country - Findspot

Egypt : Africa

Country, Swedish - Findspot

Egypten

Material

Faience, beige; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Keramik; Fajans; Fajans, beige

Acquisition

Purchased from the London collection of Major Gayer-Anderson 1 February 1930. Gift from Dir. G. Werner, Gothenburg, with contributions from R. Hultmark, Linköping.

Acquisition, Swedish

Från R. G. Gayer-Andersons samling.

Description

Scaraboid in the shape of a human head. The hair formed by parallel incised lines. Seemingly wearing a moustache, hence indicating this being a Patek. Threading hole running though the piece from neck to the top of the head. The verso has 2 incised, seated gods, the baboon of Thot wearing a sun disc, and the goddess Maat with a feather on her head and an ankh sign on her lap.

Period

New Kingdom (c.1569-1081 BC)

Period, Swedish

Nya riket (ca.1569-1081 f Kr)

Name - Acquired from

Gayer-Anderson, Robert Grenville

Description: Robert Grenville Gayer-Anderson, Major, after qualifying as a Doctor at Guy's Hospital, became an officer in the Royal Army, Medical Corps. He received his commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1903. He was lent to the Egyptian Government in 1905 by the British Government and spent the rest of his carrier in service of Egypt, in both military and civil capacities, reaching the rank of "Lewa" (Major General) and having the title of Pasha conferred upon him. He collected Egyptian objects of great significance. They are preserved in Gayer-Anderson Pasha museum in Cairo. He is the author of "Legends of the Bait al-Kretliya" (Luzac, London) and Christeros, poems (Wilding, Shrewsbury). He died in Lavenham in 1945. (www.indianminiature.org, 2012-08-31)
Source - http: vocab.getty.edu, collections.smvk.se, digitaltmuseum.org, id.loc.gov
Source, Wikip. - is desc. by: en.wikipedia.org
Source, Viaf - same as: viaf.org, viaf.org
Source, Kulturnav - same as: kulturnav.org

Cf Publications

Hornung, E., & Staehelin, E., Skarabäen und andere Siegelamulette aus Basler Sammlungen, Ägyptische Denkmäler in der Schweiz Bd. 1, Basel 1976, 35, 190f, no 88, 320, 908, 912, B 76, also 96 (Maat): 100, 108 (Thot and baboon).

Newberry, P.E., CG Scarab Shaped Seals, London 1907, no 37147, pl 9

PhotoNegNo

Dig. neg. MM 11314a .Museum neg.-

Miscellaneous

Pharaonic Egypt: Daily Life

Length / Längd

2,1 cm

Width / Bredd

1,6 cm

Thickness / Tjocklek

1,3 cm

Dimensions

L.2.1 cm, W.1.6 cm, T.1.3 cm

Condition

Fragmentary. The verso damaged at one edge.

Original register

Egypt

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